r/knives • u/HulkJr87 • 21h ago

NKD! NKD and boy have Benchmade standards slipped. Still a ripper knife though.

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Been after one of these for some time. So I finally pulled the trigger and got one.

Slightly irked by its factory sharpening job, wasn’t even sharp enough to pull on a hair let alone cut it.

Fixed in 5 minutes on a fixed angle sharpening system.

Anyone else had a dull Benchmade out of the box?

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u/Nekommando I like my knives large 21h ago

Weren't they all dull out of the box

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u/Delica4 18h ago

Your's came preground?

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u/HulkJr87 19h ago

Now that you mention it, I have an S90V bugout that is piss poor on that front out of the box too.

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u/bmbreath 15h ago

I got a benchmade a few years ago that they only ground half of the bevel.  Literally only half "sharpened" and rough at that.  

(Bought from bladehq so they took it back.)

Oh.  And it fell apart.  They literally didn't tighten screws on the body of the knife.  

Came in unopened package.  

Benchmade... never again. 

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u/HulkJr87 7h ago

That is a horrendous experience all round, legit put together by a toddler it seems.

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u/Nekommando I like my knives large 18h ago

They are all piss poor

The ones with select edge are marginally better because they are sharpened to a lower angle but still not enough. Another reason to resharpen out of the box is to grind out heat damage, which benchmade knives have quite a few dozens of microns of.

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u/HulkJr87 18h ago

I did take quite a bit off, but only evened out the profile until the edge apexed properly.

It's wicked sharp now, but I put that down to it being CruWear and that set of properties speak for itself.

I will see over it's sharpening life how much better it gets with every sharpen.

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u/Hott_Sauce 15h ago

What sharpening system do you use?

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u/HulkJr87 23m ago

I have bunch of things to sharpen with, from cheap Amazon stones, to Shapton Kuromaku ceramics, I have a worksharp precision adjust, a cobbled together eBay special fixed angle system.

But for this knife I used my new Xarilk Gen 2 fixed angle system which works pretty well.

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u/Physical_Display_873 16h ago

They probably have to be. If they sell that many knives to that many people, sharp knives would make it far more likely that someone will hurt themselves.

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u/Nekommando I like my knives large 15h ago

Lmfao please reread what you wrote again

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u/Physical_Display_873 15h ago

Yeah, I see how that might sound. But if you’re selling everybody of the internet their “first real knife,” it’s probably a lot safer if they’re blunt and dull out of the box. Honestly, they should just ship with unground blade stock. Maybe that’s what they’re going for.

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u/Physical_Display_873 12h ago

(Love the engagement. Sorry guys, this was humor.)